Only one picture?

I went back to Nashville on Thursday to pick up Kellen.  I had to go with him to therapy all day on Friday and I learned a lot of strategies to help Kellen.  Hopefully, he will have a great year in SECOND grade!  Woo-hoo!  Right when we got back, we headed up to the lake and, of course, I forgot my camera.  So, I have one measly picture of Charlotta on the trampoline--she loved it though!

A very busy weekend!

Kellen and I left for Nashville on Saturday.  He is going to be staying in Nashville with Mormor, Lena and Byron because he is doing intensive language therapy (for his language disorder) for a week.  Then on Sunday, I flew up to Detroit to pick up Skylar and James from Michigan.  They met me at the airport and then we flew home via a loooooooonnnngggg stay in Denver.  While we waited and waited for our delayed flight, we went to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory and James had the biggest, best tasting peanut butter cup ever!

Back in Midland, Battered and Bat Boy/Girl

When Visa picked Skylar up from camp, she had a "sprained" finger from Tuesday at camp.  It was still black and blue and swollen so I had Visa take her in for an x-ray and, yup, it is broken.  The next day she pops out her wire from her braces and today she got a black eye from playing wiffle ball.  Oh well, everything is ok when she gets to be the bat girl for the Midland Loons!

 

James (slightly less battered) also gets to be a bat boy.  They are having so much fun, they are never going to want to come home to me:)

Camp Neyati at last!!!

The kids LOVE Camp Neyati!  They can not wait to get there!  And the day has finally arrived!  We get there, make the bed and James promptly kicks me out and sends me on my way.  I barely gave Skylar a hug before she kicked me out.  So, it took us all of 5 minutes to drop them off!

 

Then Lovisa and I headed off to Detroit to eat at Michael Symon's Roast.  I was soooooo excited to be eating at a Michael Symon Restaurant.  He his my favorite celebrity chef and I have been wanting to eat at a place of his for a LONG time!  It was amazing!

 We ordered 5 appetizers...

 (Visa loving the marrow bone!)

2 entrees...

 (Visa IS just joking around!)

3 sides...2 desserts and of course a few cocktails!  Beet infused gin...delicious!

 

I was completely stuffed and satisfied!  Everything was delicious and I would love to go back!

Off to Visa's

We arrived yesterday and decided to spend the day at the pool today.

 I needed to borrow Skylar's hat:)

Celebrating Kellen a little early

This weekend, I have to take Skylar and James up to Michigan, so we will be gone on Kellen's Birthday.  We didn't want to celebrate on the fourth, so we had Kellen's party today.  He wanted it to be just like Skylar's party!  So we start the day with special dognuts.

 

Later in the evening, we have Kellen's party.

 Kellen was so excited to open presents, he wanted to do them before cake!

 Skylar just can't keep her hands off!

 So intent on opening his presents!

 Ready for cake:)

 Kellen took a swing before I was ready and he missed my stomach by inches (Check out my face!)

 Lotta gives it a try!

 Kellen actually makes the killing blow:)

After this we went off to "the same bowling alley" as Skylar's party (but I forgot to take pictures).  Everyone had a really great time though!

Kellen's baseball team!

Last ball game for Kellen and they take a team picture (of course, I could not find his team shirt today).  He really improved over the summer!  It was a bit of a disaster at the beginning of the year...